The
Agogna (in
PiedmontesePiedmontese , is a Romance language spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is geographically and linguistically included in the Northern Italian group...
Agògna) is a narrow 140 km long river which runs through the
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
regions of
PiedmontPiedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km
2 and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the so-called Occitan Valleys...
and
LombardyLombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region...
. It is a left side tributary of the river Po.
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The
Agogna (in
PiedmontesePiedmontese , is a Romance language spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is geographically and linguistically included in the Northern Italian group...
Agògna) is a narrow 140 km long river which runs through the
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
regions of
PiedmontPiedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km
2 and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the so-called Occitan Valleys...
and
LombardyLombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region...
. It is a left side tributary of the river Po.
The river's origin is in the area between
Lake OrtaLake Orta is a lake in northern Italy west of Lago Maggiore.It has been so named since the 16th century, but was previously called the Lago di San Giulio, after Saint Julius , the patron saint of the region; Cusio is a merely poetical name...
and
Lake MaggioreLake Maggiore is the most westerly of the three large prealpine lakes of Italy and the second largest after Lake Garda. It lies approximately at .It has a surface area of about 213 km², a maximum length of 54 km and, at its widest, is 12 km...
. It then flows in the
province of NovaraNovara is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.It has an area of 1,339 km², and a total population of 365.156 . There are 88 communes in the province .-External links:*...
, the
province of PaviaThe Province of Pavia is a province in the region of Lombardy in Italy. City of Pavia is the capital.It has an area of 2,965 km², and a total population of 493,829 . There are 190 communes in the province...
,
LomellinaThe Lomellina is a geographical and historical area in the Pianura Padana of northern Italy, located in south-western Lombardy between the Sesia, Po and Ticino rivers....
(in the communes of
Castello d'AgognaCastello d'Agogna is a small town and comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km west of Pavia...
and
LomelloLomello is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km southwest of Milan and about 30 km west of Pavia, on the right bank of the Agogna...
), receiving its left tributary Erbognone, flowing into the Po at Balossa Bigli, part of the
comuneIn Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.- Importance and function :...
of
Mezzana BigliMezzana Bigli is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km southwest of Milan and about 25 km southwest of Pavia in the Lomellina traditional region, near the left bank of the Po River and its confluence with the Agogna....
.
During the
Napoleonic conquest of ItalyThe Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played...
, the Agogna gave its name to a department of the
Kingdom of ItalyThe Kingdom of Italy was founded in Northern Italy by Napoleon, and ended with his defeat and fall.-Constitutional Statutes:...
with
NovaraNovara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 103.602 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin and it is the second urban area of the Region Piedmont with 190,000 inhabitants...
as capital.
External links
- Le Oasi della Federazione Nazionale Pro Natura , click on the L’Agogna Morta for a description of a nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
on the banks of the river in BorgolavezzaroBorgolavezzaro is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km southeast of Novara...
and NicorvoNicorvo is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 40 km northwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 385 and an area of 8.2 km²....
.
- Centro di Formazione Ambientale Monferrato , in particular the section on the LIPU
LIPU, the Lega italiana protezione uccelli is an Italian charitable organisation, founded in 1965 and devoted to the protection of the country’s wildlife with a particular focus on birds...
Oasi di Agognate nature reserve through which the Agogna runs.